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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by BubRoss on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:35PM (#21555831)
Wouldn't that be a trip that someone would normally be driving anyway? Also wouldn't it make sense to have a store deliver to lots of people on one circuit, this reducing traffic?
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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by CydeWeys on Saturday November 16, 2019 @10:46PM (#21556443)
No, once you don't need to drive it personally you can run a lot more errands, and thus will. See the linked article.

And look at how much more random stuff people buy when a click of a mouse gets it delivered to your house vs having to go to stores looking for it.

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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by BubRoss on Saturday November 16, 2019 @11:21PM (#21556551)
If one car is going in a loop and delivering to lots of people it would be less time on the road than all the cars of the individual errands.
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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by CydeWeys on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:53PM (#21559348)
This doesn't seem to be the world we're headed towards though. People like owning their own personal vehicles and aren't likely to give that up.
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Re:A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Dr... by BubRoss on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:39PM (#21559934)
What are you basing that on? In dense cities with good transportation infrastructure people don't own cars nearly as much and the people that do own cars use them less.

I think you are confusing necessity with desire.

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